Flora of North America species comparison

simple or few to several from base, usually erect to spreading, sometimes prostrate, 0.5–2 dm.

simple from base, erect to decumbent, (slender), 0.6–1.5 dm.

blade oblanceolate, 2–3 cm, margins entire.

blades obovate to deltate, 1.5–3(–4) cm, margins entire or outer one with 1 or 2 broad teeth.

(sessile or proximal shortly petiolate);

blade narrowly oblanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire.

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 0.6–1.5 cm, margins entire.

loose.

loose.

sepals ovate to elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm, (median pair often thickened apically, cucullate);

petals obovate, (6–)7–10 mm (nearly as wide, abruptly narrowed to claw, ca. 1 mm wide).

sepals (green-yellow, often tinged with purple), elliptic, 3–4.6 mm;

petals oblanceolate, 6–8 mm (claw expanded).

(erect to divaricate or ascending, sometimes curved), (5–)10–20(–40) mm, (stout).

(sigmoid), 5–9 mm.

subglobose to ellipsoid, compressed (usually angustiseptate), to 8 mm; (valves not retaining seeds after dehiscence);

replum as wide as or wider than fruit;

ovules 10–14 per ovary;

style 1–2 mm.

(depressed), broadly obovate, compressed (angustiseptate), 2–4 mm, (apex slightly bilobed to nearly truncate);

valves densely pubescent, trichomes strongly ascending, spreading, long, (appearing fuzzy), pubescent inside;

ovules 4 per ovary;

style 3–4 mm, (pubescent or glabrous).

plump.

flattened.

= 20.